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2/4/2025
WT Staff
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February 4, 2025 updated 1153 am CST
St. Martinville water service outage to be followed by boil order
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
St. Martin Parish: City of St Martinville shut off water service to some customers yesterday, a boil water advisory has been issued for impacted customers now that service has been restored. Customers connecting along St. Martin Street between Evangeline and Old Market Street are required to boil water until two consecutive daily samples test clean. Watch for local notices that the water is safe to drink from the tap. City of St. Martinville supplies 7575 residents from a groundwater source in watershed Region 5. This facility is an EPA enforcement priority, with four significant violations in the last twelve quarters, treatment technique violations of the Groundwater Rule. The last sanitary survey of the facility was completed by Louisiana Dept of Health in July 2024.
Evangeline Parish: Water customers in the Town of Basile came under a BWA following a water main break last week. Customers connecting in the Hebert Subdivision and surrounding areas were under a BWA over the weekend. Town of Basile Water System distributes potable water to 2400 Evangeline and Acadia County residents from a groundwater well source purchased from another licensed drinking water facility. According to US EPA compliance records, the last sanitary survey was completed in June 2023. Significant deficiencies were noted in finished water storage, and non-compliance is noted in two of the last twelve quarters, specifically the treatment technique, Groundwater Rule.
US EPA has released the latest quarterly reporting audit of US drinking water facilities compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.
See the WTLA.us Serious Violator List, January 2025, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of monitoring stations of the US Geological Survey
Overcast and 81 degrees in New Orleans, already at the daytime high of 78F ahead of the clouds breaking up for a partly sunny day. Overcast, 74 degrees at Shreveport, the daytime high 78 degrees F with patchy fog sticking around until noon.
A new flood event started this morning around 4 am in Region 7, the Pearl River is flooding near Bogalusa, just three inches over flood stage at this report and rising.
Streamflows continue normal to above normal in the Regions 1 to 5. Calcasieu River is still flooding in Region 4. The measured water level has come down a few inches overnight, down to a foot and a half over the channel near Glenmora. See the flood location and water level details on the front page map, indicated with black tags.
Regions 3 and 7 continue with drought ratings. Moderate drought persists in along the Tangipahoa River channel through Tangipahoa Parish. Adjacent area in St Tammany Parish continue below normal, along with adjacent area west of the moderate drought, below normal ratings for West Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rough and Iberville Parishes. Region 3 north Union, Claiborne and Lincoln Parishes remain below normal.
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